CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history: In 1898, Norman Dosson Lowless and Ronald Dosson Lowless formed the solicitors firm of Lowless & Lowless, based in pembroke and Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, as successor to the firm of D. Hughes and Wynne. After the deaths of Norman, in 1933, and Ronald, in 1937, Owen Frederick Lowless took over the firm as a sole practitioner in 1950. The firm accumulated probates, letters of administration, sale particulars, title deeds and related papers relating to their clients' interests in the course of their work, mainly in Pembroke, Pembroke Dock and the surrounding area. The firm and its predecessor was involved in the administration of several trusts, as well as family estates including the Meyrick family's Bush Estate, Pembroke Dock, the Leach family, of Corston, Hundleton, and Jamaica, and Smyth Trust and Capel Trust, the Adams family's Holyland Estate, St Michael, Pembroke, the Lawrenny Estate, Neyland, the Lort Phillips family's Glanarberth Estate, in Llechryd, Cardiganshire, and Haverfordwest, the Orielton Estate, Pembroke Dock and Monkton, of the Owen family and Miss Jane Martha Jones of Cilwendeg, and the descendants of Wyrriott Owen (d. 1773), of Great Nash.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material: The majority of records of the management of the Bush Estate is deposited in the Pembrokeshire Record Office, D/BUSH. Further papers relating to the Lawrenny estate are Pembrokeshire Record Office, D/LAW and HDX/929; and in National Library of Wales, Morgan Richardson Papers.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note: Title from content of fonds.

Archivist's note: Compiled by Seri Crawley for the ANW project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Pembrokeshire Record Office, Lowless and Lowless, solicitors, of Shaftesbury House, Pembroke and Pembroke Dock Records catalogue; Jones, Francis, Historic Houses of Pembrokeshire and their Families, (Newport, 1996); and Lowless and Lowless website (www.lowless.co.uk/), viewed 28th June 2005.

Rules or conventions: This description follows ANW guidelines based on ISAD(G) Second Edition; AACR2 and LCSH.